As states face health care services shortages, state
legislature are turning to telehealth to help alleviate the problem. The most
common telehealth policies that arise include establishing the definition and
scope of telehealth practice allowed in the state and providing for parity in
health insurance coverage, requiring insurers to... Click Here To Read More

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R-AR)
signed Act 1134 into law on April 7,
2015. The act addresses the essential pediatric oral health benefit under the
Affordable Care Act. Under the law, health plans within the state exchange
without pediatric oral... Click Here To Read More

Despite being called one
of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century, community water
fluoridation continues to be a hot button issue. While there are bills moving
in some state legislatures, most of the action on community water fluoridation
is at the local level.

Assembly member Deborah J. Glick (D-NY) has sponsored A08660. The bill passed the full House by a vote of 136-0 on March 24. The bill provides foreign-trained dental faculty the limited privilege of licensure, but only if they are... Click Here To Read More

On May 12, the National Governors Association (NGA) announced the selection of seven states—Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Wisconsin—to develop and implement statewide plans for their health care workforces.

2014 has been an active year in oral health as several states have hired new dental directors. Additionally, California is finalizing funding and working through the administrative process of hiring a state dental director.